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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1946

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N.S.W. Wheat Crop Heavy Skimp This Year SYDNEY, Friday Night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 1

The N.S.W. wheat crop this season will, on present prospects, yield between 20 and 26 million bushels, compared with 62 million bushels last year…

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Wool Conference Meeting In London

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 3

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: The wool conference of British and Dominion governments to be held in London is an effort to secure a long-term…

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Wool Sales Suspended SYDNEY, Friday

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 1

Wool Hales, which were due to start next week, have been temporarily suspended pending the result of a compulsory conference between the…

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Dirt Breeds Flies Control In Dairy Premises

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 3

Flies and earners of many infections, and the refuse in which they breed— decaying vegetable matter, old rags and paper, and manure—should not be…

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Progressive Farmer Returns

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1946 · page 5

At a press interview at the Head Office of the Rural Bank on his return from America hy the "Monterey," Mr. A. K. Gardiner, winner of the 1946…

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Further Wool Conference. Meeting in London

The Wellington Times · Monday 28 October 1946 · page 4

The wool conference of British and Dominion Governments to be held in London is an effort to secure a long-term…

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Wool Shipments Industrial Disputes Threaten Loss Of Markets SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1946 · page 1

The Chairman of the N.S.W. and Queensland Woolbuyers' Association Mr. A. S. Campbell stated last night that Australia may lose some…

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Wool Report

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 4

Unfortunately, owing to the upset that the wool industry has received during the week, sales in the centres where they were…

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American Wool Buying. Increase Possible

The Wellington Times · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 6

The United States continues to consume wool with great freedom. American buyers have brought fair quantities of…

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Further Wool Conference Meeting in London

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—The wool conference of British and Dominiln governments to be…

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Like the Black Sheep of Old I Return to the Fold

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 12

And why not? Wool is selling well and even a black sheep’s wool is worth shearing. My technique of the gas attack…

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State Championship Honours For Wellington Junior Farmers

The Wellington Times · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 1

IN the recently concluded Junior Farmers' State Championship contests. Wellington Junior Farmers' entries scored impressive successes—a first, a second, a fourth and a fifth prize being awarded by the judges to projects…

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Grain Sorghums Farmers Interested

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 2

Farmers are displaying a lively interest in grain sorghums, reports the Dept. of Agriculture Instructor. Mr., G. Nicholson…

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Poor Oat Crops

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 31 October 1946 · page 11

The oat crop position in this district is worse than the wheat crop, as very little hay or grain will be harvested. Grain stocks on…

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Wool Report

The Western Herald · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 5

The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. reported on 24th October:—Sales in Brisbane where the buyers have been operating during the…

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American Wool Buying Increase Possible

The Western Herald · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 5

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—The United States continues to consume wool with great freedom. American buyers have…

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No Bagged Wheat at Peak Hill

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 3

There will defu[?] wheat [?] at Peak Hill the se[?] of the Farmers and Settlers [?] Mr. C H Freckhngton…

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Seed Wheat for 1947 Arrangements for Supply

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 6

Arrangements to supply seed wheat for planting next season have received further consideration by the Department of Agriculture and the…

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Black Ban on Handing Wool. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 1

Sydney.—The Union black ban on wool handled, by Dalgety & Co. Ltd. and Aust. Mercantile Land, Finance Co. will be lifted…

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Crop Prospects Gone Few Fanners Expect To Harvest Seed For 1947

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 1 November 1946 · page 5

Although crops in the Narromine-Peak Hill-Trangie area rallied after the rain last month and it looked as though seed, at least, woud be…

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